My one small quibble is that I do not think it's accurate to call Sark an air raid guy. Like Kiffin his roots are as a west coast offense coach and he eventually grafted a lot of spread and RPO concepts onto that while he was at Bama, but beyond incorporating some of the passing concepts I don't think I would call it particularly air raidy. I will say that spending a year with Sark does have me slightly more excited about Chryst than I would be otherwise, hopefully he's picked up a few new passing game concepts and Sparks ability to use to shifts and motion to get guys into space..
I am not super fired up about Chryst but when the only other realistic candidate is Budmayr he looks pretty good by comparison. If it were up to me Iowa would be poaching from Lance Liepold or Jamey Caldwell's staffs but neither seems very likely. I could at least live with Chryst and won't be actively mad about it like I would be with Bud. To the extent he has any upside I think it would.be that he's probably the only hire Kirk could make where he might get out of the way on offense a bit. That was the hope with Brian but as mean as this sounds I don't think Kirk respected Brian as a football coach the same way he respects Chryst.
I don’t know if I can get on board with this. Might as well just hire Budmeyer. What the difference between him and Chryst? Not enough to matter in my eyes.
I mean I think the notable one is that he's actually been in charge of a good offense before. Budmayr's entire on field coaching resume is like 3 years as a QB coach (two of which he had bad QBs) and one year of playcalling experience for a 3 win mountain west team. He would be an embarassing hire for a Big Ten school even before you factor in that he's been in the building at Iowa for two seasons and they're the two worst offensive seasons in program history.
I just can't get on board the Chryst bandwagon. I saw Dochterman had Polesek as option. At least he coached as a successful OC at NDST and Wyoming. Those are good programs and he seemed like a hungry guy when he was OL coach at Iowa. Chryst seems just so blah.
Oh I would be angry at Polasek. That Wyoming offense is bad by any standard other than Iowa. They were at like 21 PPG last year in a pretty down year for the MWC and are just barely over the Brian Ferentz Line this year, while ranking 89th in total offense. Even when Wisconsin was starting to fall off those Chryst teams matched or exceeded that, and his best offenses were miles better
My one small quibble is that I do not think it's accurate to call Sark an air raid guy. Like Kiffin his roots are as a west coast offense coach and he eventually grafted a lot of spread and RPO concepts onto that while he was at Bama, but beyond incorporating some of the passing concepts I don't think I would call it particularly air raidy. I will say that spending a year with Sark does have me slightly more excited about Chryst than I would be otherwise, hopefully he's picked up a few new passing game concepts and Sparks ability to use to shifts and motion to get guys into space..
I am not super fired up about Chryst but when the only other realistic candidate is Budmayr he looks pretty good by comparison. If it were up to me Iowa would be poaching from Lance Liepold or Jamey Caldwell's staffs but neither seems very likely. I could at least live with Chryst and won't be actively mad about it like I would be with Bud. To the extent he has any upside I think it would.be that he's probably the only hire Kirk could make where he might get out of the way on offense a bit. That was the hope with Brian but as mean as this sounds I don't think Kirk respected Brian as a football coach the same way he respects Chryst.
I don’t know if I can get on board with this. Might as well just hire Budmeyer. What the difference between him and Chryst? Not enough to matter in my eyes.
I mean I think the notable one is that he's actually been in charge of a good offense before. Budmayr's entire on field coaching resume is like 3 years as a QB coach (two of which he had bad QBs) and one year of playcalling experience for a 3 win mountain west team. He would be an embarassing hire for a Big Ten school even before you factor in that he's been in the building at Iowa for two seasons and they're the two worst offensive seasons in program history.
I just can't get on board the Chryst bandwagon. I saw Dochterman had Polesek as option. At least he coached as a successful OC at NDST and Wyoming. Those are good programs and he seemed like a hungry guy when he was OL coach at Iowa. Chryst seems just so blah.
Oh I would be angry at Polasek. That Wyoming offense is bad by any standard other than Iowa. They were at like 21 PPG last year in a pretty down year for the MWC and are just barely over the Brian Ferentz Line this year, while ranking 89th in total offense. Even when Wisconsin was starting to fall off those Chryst teams matched or exceeded that, and his best offenses were miles better